I had only been awake for about an hour after I had my short nap. Me and Diamonds were hanging out in the tent as the horrific sound of shooting erupted outside. We both immediately stood up and grabbed our guns to go see what was going on.
Upon leaving our tent, the first thing I noticed were pink harpies and black dragons flying above our camp. Some members of our militia were trying to shoot them out of the sky with little success as the two of us approached the bulk of the commotion at the other side of our camp. When we arrived, I was surprised to see mamono I hadn't seen before raiding our camp.
They wore lewd, medieval looking uniforms with card-like patterns, and were surprisingly using medieval weapons like spears and bows instead of modern weapons like the mamono invading our world. It took a bit of time to realise all that, because they were hiding in the treeline, only occasionally popping out to fire an arrow or launch some sort of magic at the members of our militia defending.
"Fuck, this is bad." Diamonds shouted at me over the sound of nearby shooting. "Go find Hearts and Clubs, I'll join the defence until it falls. When it does, make sure we have all of our bags ready so we can get the fuck out of here."
As he asked, I ran away from the defence to try and find our friends. As I hurried through our camp, I noticed a handful of people frantically packing their things, likely to abandon ship like my friends were planning. The panic filled minutes passed as I tried to find my friends. I made my way to the other side of the camp which had less fighting going on, and checked out everyone's helmets for a card strapped to the side.
By the time I confirmed my friends weren't there, something large and white fell out of the sky. It landing on the ground behind the guys defending this part of the camp, breaking open into a yellow slime.
"Is that a fucking egg?" A defending militia member asked as he stared at it.
I stared at it as well until it started to move, slowly taking a humanoid shape.
"Oh for fuck sakes, they're dropping slimes in our base." The militia member shouted as he ran into a nearby supply tent. I took a few shots at the slime, the bullets doing nothing at all to it.
The slime tried to grab some of the guys apart from the defence, so some of them ended up leaving what little cover they had to stay away from it. The other guy left the supply tent with a jerry can of gas in hand. He doused the slime in it before lighting a ball of paper on fire and tossing it at the slime, erupting it into a large flame. A few more slimes were dropped from the sky so I left to keep searching for my friends as the defence continued to try and hold off the inevitable.
I tried to run over to the other side of camp, and as I did I noticed a shadow cast over me. I looked up just in time to see one of those black dragons diving down towards me. I dove out of the way as she swooped to where I was standing before flying off back to the sky.
One of the nearby guys who was packing his things wasn't so lucky as another black dragon swooped down and grabbed him, these black mouth like tentacles wrapping around him as she did. She carried him off into the sky before disappearing, presumably to make him her husband. I would've kept moving but those black dragons started to swoop in to try and grab people more so I hid in a nearby tent with another guy.
"First chance I get I'm running to the treeline." The guy I was with said.
"That's where those soldiers are dumbass." I remarked.
He looked at me with annoyance before saying, "There's more than one treeline, you know. The treeline opposite of the chaotic defence looked to be empty besides the flying mamono in the sky. If I were you, I'd also abandon this militia."
"I'm planning on it."
I observed the skies for some time before things seemed clear. I stepped out of the tent, only to see a shower of something falling out of the sky. Not sure what it was, I hid in the tent until they reached the ground, revealing themselves to be a bunch of cards. They were bigger than usual cards, but they still had the same design.
Cautious about why they were dropped in camp, I kept my gun trained on the cards on the ground as I stepped out of the opposite side of the tent, not wanting to walk over them. I could see more cards rain upon different parts of the camp, mostly where clumps of the militia were. I slowly began to move again, keeping my on the cards that now littered certain parts of the camp.
"Diamonds? Clubs? Hearts?" I occasionally shouted as I looked around for them. An odd bit of hopelessness set upon me as I began to worry about the possibility of my friends being grabbed by one of the numerous flying mamono in the sky.
As I passed by some cards on the ground that were littered outside of a small tent which had a few members of the defence enter it to pack their things to leave, I noticed the cards start to move. The cards that landed face up started to wobble around like the centre of them was made out of liquid.
"Hey, uh, guys in the tent, somethings going on out here." I was warned.
"We know! Everything is going on out there, there... the fuck?!" One of the guys in the tent stopped talking after he looked outside of it and spotted the cards. He got the attention of the others who also stepped out and looked at the odd display.
One of the card's liquid centres stretched for a moment before one of the mamono soldiers with card pattern uniforms popped out of it. In only a second, a fucking playing card made a person appear. This was followed by the other couple dozen face up cards littering the ground popping out their own mamono soldiers, again with similar card uniforms, the suit and number of cards being the only difference.
The guys in the tent opened fire only to be quickly surrounded and stabbed by the spears wielded by the soldiers. They didn't show any damage from the spears, only becoming unconscious. God damn demon silver. I turned to run, not willing to fight the horde that appeared in front of me.
All around me as I frantically ran around those soldiers were popping out from the cards that were airdropped into our camp, causing unbridled chaos. A few more black dragons swooped down to grab people, one even trying to grab me. I dove out of the way, dropping my gun in the process.
As I got to my knees to keep moving, I noticed a lady standing in front of me. One of those same card wearing mamono soldiers, only unlike the others, she had a highly detailed ace of spades decorating the front of her uniform. She stared at me, seemingly examining something on my face as I kneeled before her. I considered grabbing my nearby gun I dropped, but she was right in front of me, standing there spear in hand just staring at me.
A cheerful smile grew on her face as she adjusted the red beret of hers that sat atop her long black hair. My heart was filling with panic as I tried to figure out my best approach to escaping this. The plans rushing through my mind came to a stop as she cheerfully said, "I like that card of yours."
I was confused for a moment before I realised she was talking about the ace of spades I had strapped to my helmet.
"What? Why would you like... hold up." My voice trailed off as the pieces came together.
"I think you and I are a perfect match for each other." She happily announced.
"I don't consent." I fearfully replied as I slowly reached towards my gun, trying and maybe failing at being subtle in doing so.
"It'll be ok, there is so much you and I can do together." She spoke as she took a step towards me. In a bout of panic, I quickly shot my hand towards my gun. As my hand touched it, I felt her grab me before pulling me into a hug, her specifically trying to hold my head against her cleavage.
My vision blurred for a moment before she let go of me. Still on my knees, I looked around, realising I was no longer in the camp. Instead, I was in some fancy bedroom, similar to that of a palace in a fairy tale. There was a bed, dressers, closet, some other stuff that was bedroom related, and it all seemed to be highly pricey and decorative. The white walls, painted with purple mood lighting complimented the overall design.
"What the fuck?" I said in confusion.
She smiled and replied, "I know it's confusing, but all of us trumparts have our own pocket dimension that we can shape however we like. What do you think of your new home?"
"Fuck this, I don't want to be with you." I angrily answered.
"Oh, but you do. You and I both are aces of spades, at least I am and you like them. You and I are going to make the best couple."
I stood up and tried to back away from her, only to be stopped by a wall. I spotted a nearby door to my left so I ran over to that and grabbed the doorknob, thankfully being unlocked. I turned it and opened the door only to be greeted by a dark void.
"Sorry about that, I haven't designed the rest of our home yet." She apologetically said as I stood there unable to comprehend what was going on.
I turned to her and with fear in my voice, shouted, "Let me go, right now!"
"But we haven't gotten to know each other yet! I still have to interrogate you and learn all the things about your body."
"Don't you fucking dare!" I warned as I backed myself against a wall.
She approached me so I warned her one final time, "Another step and I'll fuck you up."
"Mmm, I'd like that, yes. Though, I should be the one doing the fucking." She replied, seemingly oblivious to how it was a threat. After she took another step forward, I wound up and punched her in the face, immediately regretting doing so as pain shot throughout my hand.
It felt as if I punched a block of steel, the pain telling me that I likely fractured something. "Oh, don't be scared, I'm not that bad. You could've been brought to the dimension of a diamond trumpart, but you got me."
I held my fractured hand in pain as she calmly reached out for my arm. "No no no, please..." I quietly said as she grabbed my fractured hand.
She held it against her chest as she pinned me against the wall. To my surprise, a warm, comforting feeling washed over my hand, and any pain in it vanished. She just fucking used magic to fix my hand.
"There, that's better, wouldn't you suppose?" She gently cooed as she rested her chin on top of my head.
Speechless and with literally nothing I could do, I closed my eyes and hoped whatever fate awaited me wouldn't be terrible. A few moments passed where she gently pinned me against the wall before I could sense the world around me being altered. I opened my eyes and saw that the walls were wobbling around, the mood light dissipating as it intensified. The trumpart as she called herself, looked around with panic as she kept saying, "Oh no."
My vision went blurry again, and when it cleared up I was dropped onto the pink grass, the sound of gunshots filling my ears. I was back in camp. I looked up and saw Hearts, Diamonds and Clubs standing there, Hearts holding a large ace of spades card upside down and violently shaking it.
"What... what..." I stammered as they dropped the card and helped me up.
"I saw that mamono bitch pull you into that card." Clubs informed me.
"How... what?"
Before he could explain, a group of trumparts rounded a nearby tent and looked at us. They bore diamond uniforms and prepared to cast something at us before a grenade was tossed towards them. They noticed it and jumped out of the way as it went off. A few more grenades were thrown around the area, one of them landing in a collapsed tent.
The four of us tried to walk away as the grenade exploded, a large piece of shrapnel launching out and slamming into the back of Hearts' helmet. He was knocked over, completely unconscious from the force. Clubs and I picked him up and carried him towards the side of the camp that supposedly had an empty treeline.
The chaos unfolded around us as I ditched it all, reaching the side of the camp and as I was told, it was empty. No mamono of any type in it. We made out way to it, Hearts coming to and being walked over to it.
After reaching the treeline we hid in some bushes and Clubs checked on Heart's head. We watched as fighting carried on, some soldiers escaping to the trees that surrounded the camp, most being captured. Most tried to fight till the end, while some just accepted their fate and surrendered. One guy even tried to shoot himself but was stopped by a demon silver arrow being shot into his arm. The four of us helplessly watched as those captured were sorted in the way the mamono usually did.
People who were good looking and young were moved out of the camp, while people who were poor looking or old stayed in the camp. The trumparts remained in the area until some white portals appeared and the typical mamono we were accustomed to stepping out of it. The trumpart soldiers left the camp, leaving the typical mamono equipped with modern weapons in the camp. They lined everyone up, making me look away as I knew what would happen next.
I waited as the synchronised sound of gunshots erupted and ended soon after.
"Fucking monsters." Diamonds muttered with disgust.
With Hearts still dazed, Clubs, the closest friend of Hearts, ordered us to move out.
Chapter end.